The day after I turned seventeen I started working for a big corporation. Fast forward twenty years, I've climbed the ranks and done well for myself. That is until this round of layoffs which is an annual occurrence for our company. I was devastated when I was told my role was being eliminated. I had two weeks to train the person taking my workload then I was on my own. The one silver lining in all of this...I got twenty-six weeks of severance. I know a lot of people who've g